{"id":16704,"date":"2017-11-03T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=16704"},"modified":"2017-11-03T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:33:54","slug":"prankster-deletes-presidents-trumps-twitter-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/prankster-deletes-presidents-trumps-twitter-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Prankster deletes President Trump&#8217;s Twitter account"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16707\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16707\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/11\/donald-trump-twitter-deactivated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"290\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gone. The unthinkable, happened.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Overnight, President Donald Trump&#8217;s Verified @RealDonaldTrump twitter account was wiped off the face of the internet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">I know what you&#8217;re thinking, it&#8217;s been a long time coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But in a shocking plot twist, the internet was not so relieved to find it back up and running eleven minutes after it went down.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/20committee\/status\/926222452157571073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2017%2F11%2F02%2Ftechnology%2Fdonald-trump-twitter%2Findex.html<\/p>\n<p>Those eleven minutes of silence were due to one very ballsy worker at Twitter HQ.<\/p>\n<p>Many speculated that the disappearance was the result of a hack. Trump uses his platform to insult and criticise other countries, ministers, opponents, celebrities and just about anyone really, it wouldn&#8217;t have been too surprising.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><strong>CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon called the prank a &#8220;Major crisis&#8221;.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However,Twitter have released a statement saying that the account was deleted due to &#8216;human error&#8217;, by an employee on their last day. Not all heroes wear capes.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterGov\/status\/926267806261407744<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/winterjessica\/status\/926270231605055488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2017%2F11%2F02%2Ftechnology%2Fdonald-trump-twitter%2Findex.html<\/p>\n<p>A small victory for mankind was made last night, we salute you sir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Michael Ward | Subbing: Charlotte Racher<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight, President Donald Trump&#8217;s Verified @RealDonaldTrump twitter account was wiped off the face of the internet. I know what you&#8217;re thinking, it&#8217;s been a long time coming. But in a shocking plot twist, the internet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}